Empress Of’s New Song Will Make Your Day A Whole Lot Better

Plus, listen to an exclusive playlist of breakup anthems inspired by the song’s fuck-everyone themes.

Early this morning, Empress Of shared her first track of 2017, "Go To Hell." It's the best kind of kiss-off — one that takes heartbreak and anger and twists it into self-empowerment and pop gold. And it's so damn good.

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"Life's too short to waste it on somebody else's fears," she sings over a beat made up of synthy sounds and hand-clapping. Like my therapist always says, "Don't let someone else be a barometer for your emotions." Seems like Empress has had a revelation about the way she functions in relationships, too: "This song is very much about a specific thing that happened to me that hurt me and now I laugh with joy every time I hear it," she wrote in a note to The FADER. "This is the power of music."